Benicia Election Results: All but final, only 99 Benicia ballots left to count

The Solano County Registrar of Voters issued a day’s end report at 4:25pm Tuesday 11/22. Although 4,316 Provisional ballots remain to be counted, only 99 of those are from Benicia. When those ballots are counted, Mayor Patterson, Steve Young and Tom Campbell will maintain their victory. Patterson, Young and Campbell will be sworn in at the City Council meeting on Tuesday, December 6.

Mayor Elizabeth Patterson‘s lead decreased by 2 votes after today’s counting. Her margin of victory over challenger Mark Hughes has nearly tripled, increasing from 109 votes early on Wednesday morning, to 315 as of today. Hughes phoned Mayor Patterson on the day after the election to concede.

City Councilmember-elect Steve Young‘s lead over Tom Campbell increased by 17 votes today and his lead over Christina Strawbridge increased by 18. Young remains the top vote-getter, now by a margin of 283 votes over Campbell and 799 votes over Strawbridge. Traditionally in Benicia, the Council candidate with the most votes becomes Vice Mayor until the next election cycle. Congratulations, Vice-mayor-elect Young!

Solano County Supervisor-elect Monica Brown also extended her lead over Mike Ioakimedes by 155 votes, increasing her margin of victory to 3629 votes (18550 Brown to 14921 Ioakimedes).